Description of Statewide Databases



Description of Statewide Databases

ProQuest Research Library (All Modules)

Provides comprehensive coverage to a wide range of full-text and image journals. Research Library consists of 3,179 total titles, 2239 or 70.4% are full text. This resources supports information retrieval for the following disciplines (and more):

• Education

• Health

• Sciences

• Social Science

• Multi-Cultural

• Psychology

• Business

• Child Development Studies

• Arts

• General Interest

• Humanities

• International Studies

• Law

• Military

• Women’s Interests

ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry

The source professionals rely on for major trade and industry news. In-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics in 1,037 publiciations, with over 1,010 in full-text. Users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportations, librarianship, education and many more.

Sample Titles:

• Multimedia Week

• Network Computing

• Principal’s Report

• Library Journal

• MacWorld

• Telecomm Worldwire

Washington Newsstand

Current coverage from 18 of the major and lesser papers of the state including:

• Seattle Times

• Seattle Post Intelligencer

• Vancouver Columbian

• Longview Daily News

• Spokane Review

• Everett Herald

• Yakima Herald-Republic

National Newspapers

• Wall Street Journal

• New York Times

• Washington Post

• Christian Science Monitor

• Los Angeles Times

eLibrary

Designed for use by middle and senior high school students. Students find the answers they need from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts - plus thousands of maps, pictures, web links, and audio/video files. Teachers can create electronic bookcarts with just the resources they want their students to use.

eLibrary Elementary

A sub-set of eLibrary, eLibrary Elementary has an easy-to-use graphical interface designed specifically for elementary students. eLibrary Elementary features 41+ magazine titles, 8 newspaper titles, 95 reference books, 12 map collections, 14 picture collections, 5 audio/video collections, 9 TV & radio transcript programs and 100,000+ editor selected websites.

Ethnic Newswatch

Ethnic NewsWatch is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Continuously growing since 1991, Ethnic NewsWatch is now a collection of over 830,000 full-text articles from 240 publications. An average of 7,500 new articles is added each month.

Sample Titles:

• The Jewish Advocate

• La Opinion

• AsianWeek

• El Nuevo Herald

• Alberta Sweetgrass

• Chicago Defender

Alt-PressWatch

Alt-PressWatch is a full text database comprised of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.

Sample Titles:

• Earth First!

• Progressive Librarian

• Radical Teacher

• Eugene Weekly

• Librarians at Liberty

• SF Weekly

CultureGrams

Offers concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on more than 182 cultures of the world.and US States CultureGrams go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.

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